Securing Cloud Services: A Comprehensive Approach to Safeguarding Cloud Infrastructure, Services, and Data
About this ebook
- Covers a wide range of cloud models and security threats, offering insights on securing services.
- Provides practical guidance on applying security architecture to various cloud services.
- Delivers comprehensive coverage of data privacy, regulatory concerns, and compliance.
- Understand cloud computing fundamentals and its impact on security.
- Explore various cloud taxonomies, service, and deployment models.
- Learn to balance security benefits and potential pitfalls of cloud services.
- Identify key security threats from providers, insiders, and hackers.
- Grasp data privacy, regulatory concerns, and compliance requirements.
- Implement security architecture tailored for cloud environments.
This book is intended for IT security professionals, cloud architects, and data managers looking to enhance their understanding of securing cloud environments. It is suitable for those familiar with cloud computing but requires no specialized knowledge. Ideal for security practitioners, enterprise architects, and consultants focused on managing cloud security, as well as compliance officers needing to navigate regulatory issues.
About the author
IT Governance Publishing (ITGP) is the world's only specialist IT governance publisher. We produce books, toolkits and training aids on a wide range of topics including information security, IT governance, information risk, compliance, cyber security, IT service management, project management and management system standards.
Lee Newcombe is an experienced and well qualified security architect. During his career, he has been employed by a major retail bank, two of the Big Four consultancies and a global systems integrator. His roles have included penetration testing, security audit, security architecture, security design, security implementation, business continuity, disaster recovery, forensics, identity and access management, security monitoring and many other facets of information assurance. He has worked across various sectors, including financial services, retail, utilities and government, from the earliest days of the UK government's G-Cloud programme through to his current role helping FTSE 100 companies succeed with their Cloud First strategies. He currently leads the Cloud security capability in Northern Europe for a global systems integrator. Lee is a TOGAF® 9-certified enterprise architect and holds numerous security certifications, including CISSP® and CCSK, and full membership of the Institute of Information Security Professionals, and is a CESG Certified Senior Information Risk Advisor, having previously been a long-term member of the CESG Listed Advisor Scheme. He acted as the Chair of the UK Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance from 2017 to 2019 and has been writing about, presenting on and working with Cloud technologies since 2008.
